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Bartolomeo Ignazio Capello (Borgo di Valsugana, Trento, Italy, 1689 - 1768) was an Italian painter in a late Baroque style.

Biography

He studied in Venice under Gregorio Lazzarini and Antonio Balestra; then travelled to Modena where he created copies of the work of Correggio. He was employed to paint for the Court of the Elector of Mainz; and in the Villa Giovanelli Colonna in Noventa Padovana, in Trento near Prato and Saracini; for the residence of Cardinal Schönborn in Speyer, and also for patrons in Salzburg.

References

1. Scrittori ed artisti trentini, by Francesco Ambrosi, Giovanni Zippel Editor, 1883, Trento, page 95.

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